INTRODUCTION:Prostitution has always been a major issue in India. Bombay alone is home to one lakh prostitutes, the largest sex industry centre in Asia. Often women are forced into this profession due to poverty, human trafficking, illiteracy, desertion, etc. According to Human Rights Watch, there are approximately 15 million prostitutes in India. There are more than 100,000 women prostitution in Bombay, Asia’s largest sex industry center. An oft-repeated cause of prostitution is poverty. But poverty is not the only reason. The helplessness of women forces them to sell their bodies. Many girls from villages are trapped for the trade in the pretext of love and elope from home, only to find themselves sold in the city to pimps, who take money from the women as commission. The other causes of prostitution include ill treatment by parents, bad company, family prostitutes, social customs, inability to arrange marriage, lack of sex education, media, prior incest and rape, early marriage and desertion, lack of recreational facilities, ignorance, and acceptance of prostitution. Economic causes include poverty and economic distress. Psychological causes include desire for physical pleasure, greed, and dejecection Most enter involuntarily. India, along with Thailand and the Philippines, has 1.3 million childrens in its sex-trade centers. The childrens come from relatively poorer areas and are trafficked to relatively richer ones. India and Pakistan are the main destinations for children under 16, who are trafficked to south Asia. GLOBAL SCENARIO:

Globally prostitution is legal in Canada, France, Wales, Denmark, Holland, most of South America, including Mexico (often in special zones), Israel, Australia, and many other countries. It's either legal or tolerated in most of Asia; Australia has a sex-service company whose stocks are traded on the stock exchange. The report says that although the exact number of working prostitutes in countries like India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand is impossible to calculate due to the illegal or clandestine nature of the work, anywhere between 0.25 per cent and 1.5 per cent of the total female population are engaged in prostitution. Estimates made in 2005/6 suggest that there were between 140,000 and 230,000 prostitutes in Indonesia. In Malaysia, the estimated figures for working prostitutes range from 43,000 to 142,000, but the higher figure is more probable, according to the ILO analysis. In the Philippines, estimates range from 100,000 to 600,000, but the likelihood is that there are nearly half a million prostitutes in the country. In Thailand, the Ministry of Public Health survey recorded 65,000 prostitutes in 2006 but unofficial sources put the figure between 200,000 and 300,000. There are also tens of thousands of Thai and Filipino prostitutes working in other countries. The prostitutes are mainly women, but there are also male, transvestite and child prostitutes. If we include the owners, managers, pimps and other employees of the sex establishments, the related entertainment industry and some segments of the tourism industry, the number of workers earning a living directly or indirectly from prostitution would be several millions. A 2006 study by the Ministry of Public Health of Thailand found that of a total of 104,262 workers in some 7,759 establishments where sexual services could be obtained, only 64,886 were sex workers; the rest were support staff including cleaners, waitresses, cashiers, parking valets and security guards. A Malaysian study lists occupations with links to the sex sector as medical practitioners (who provide regular health checks for the prostitutes), operators of food stalls in the vicinity of sex establishments, vendors of cigarettes and liquor, and property owners who rent premises to providers of sexual services. In the Philippines, establishments known to be involved in the sex sector include special tourist agencies, escort services, hotel room...

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...STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS
1.) What is prostitution?
2.) What is the history of prostitution and countries who are engaged in prostitution?
3.) What are the types of prostitution?
(street, brothels, escort, sex tourism and virtual sex)
4.) Which are affected by prostitution?
5.) How to stop prostitution?
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Prostitution is the business or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment. The person who receives payment for sexual services is called a prostitute or sex worker and the person who receives such services is known by a multitude of terms. Prostitution is one of the branches of the sex industry. The legal status of prostitution varies from country to country, from being permissible but unregulated, to a punishable crime or to a regulated profession. Estimates place the annual revenue generated from the global prostitution industry to be over $100 billion.[1] Prostitution is sometimes referred to as "the world's oldest profession".[2]
Prostitution occurs in a variety of forms. Brothels are establishments specifically dedicated to prostitution. In escort prostitution, the act may take place at the customer's residence or hotel room (referred to as out-call), or at the escort's residence or in...

... Today, it remains one of the most profitable industries in the world. However, the morality and legality of prostitution has resulted in controversy with highly polarized views on its legal status. In the United States, prostitution is illegal; however, debates between the liberal and radical feminists exemplify prostitution as a critical social issue.
Gaining its origins in the late nineteenth century, pro-abolition activists and anti-prostitution feminists opposed prostitution completely. They argued that prostitution is an uncivilized, violent act that degrades women and the whole American society. These feminists are often seen as radical for their strong theories. However, they create awareness that prostitution reinforces gender stereotypes and contributes to the oppression of women. Concerned over society’s morality, these radical feminists hold a structural-functionalist perspective on prostitution; by repressing prostitution, the society is able to maintain sexual norms and function properly.
In contrast, beginning in the 1970s, liberal feminism reexamined prostitution, finding it to have potential as a career choice. The liberal feminists divided prostitution into forced prostitution and sex work. While against the acts of forced prostitution, liberal feminists believed that sex...

...academic discussion about prostitution and some terms which may offend some of us will be used. As much as possible, the audience is requested to see and view the topics being presented with an open mind.
Prostitution
It is the act or practice of engaging in sex acts for hire. ‡ It is said to be derived from a composition of two Latin words: (preposition) pro and (verb) statuere. A literal translation therefore would be: to expose , to place up front .
In most cultures, prostitution is viewed as a deviant profession, either discouraged or illegal; however, motivations vary from the implications of those potentially exposed to that activity to whether it constitutes or not an exploitative practice. ‡ Contrary to the popular notion, prostitution is NOT the world s oldest profession that would be hunting, gathering and subsistence farming .
Brief History
As early as 1900 B.C., the ancient society of Mesopotamia recognized the need to protect women's property rights which included female prostitutes. ‡ 6th Century B.C.: Solon Establishes State-Funded Brothels in Greece ‡ 590 A.D.: The newly-converted Reccared I, Visigoth King of Spain, banned prostitution as part of an effort to bring his country into alignment with Christian ideology.
1161: King Henry II regulates but does not ban prostitution ‡ 1358: Italy embraces prostitution declaring it as absolutely indispensible...

...For one night, I was a Prostitute
I knew my standpoint about prostitution from the very beginning and spent weeks trying to find the best arguments to support my view, however no matter how much facts I read, I felt that there was something critical missing. I wanted more than facts; I wanted to be able to understand how it is to be in the shoes of a street worker, because in reality, most of us arguing for or against legalization of prostitution cannot relate to the every day life of one. So I decided that I should be a prostitute for a night. A night is not enough to know how it is to walk in a sex workers shoes, but I was hoping that it would give me enough insight to understand the subject better. One night three weeks ago I was sitting at a bus stop in the corner of Santa Monica and Vermont, a street in Los Angeles where many prostitutes find their clients. I had enlisted two of my closest male friends as protection, in case of any danger that might come out of my experiment, and they were safely positioned in a car across the street from me. Even though I had no intention of performing any sexual favors in exchange for money, I was feeling extremely nervous and anxious, sitting there in high heels and a dress, which was very out of place compared to the tiny outfits on the three women and a male transvestite standing not very far from me. It took me about half an hour to gather enough courage to engage in a short conversation with one of...

...Prostitution
I. Introduction
II. Content
A. About prostitutionProstitution is
a) Sexual harassment
b) rape
c) battering
d) verbal abuse
e) domestic violence
f) a racist practice
g) a violation of human rights
h) childhood sexual abuse
i) a consequence of male domination of women
j) a means of maintaining male domination of women
Prostitution is the granting of sexual access on a relatively indiscriminate basis for payment either in money or in goods, depending on the complexity of the local economic system. Payment is acknowledged to be for a specific sexual performance. Prostitution is a service that may be performed by either males or females and for either males or females, although in practice in nearly all societies acts of prostitution are commonly performed by females for males or by males for males.
B. Information About Prostitution
The commercial sex industry includes street prostitution, massage brothels, escort services, outcall services, strip clubs, lapdancing, phone sex, adult and child pornography, video and internet pornography, and prostitution tourism. Most women who are in prostitution for longer than a few months drift among these various permutations of the commercial sex industry.
C. Kinds of Prostitution
Direct Forms of Prostitution
Number Type of...

...﻿Reading Response paper #2
Prostitution Pg. 273 in Contexts
In today’s society, prostitution is often thought of as a degrading act on a female’s part. However many people argue that it is ones choice on what they want to do with their body, and that everyone has the right to choose the path that they would like to go in life. This article written by Ronald Weitzer, “Prositution: facts and opinions”, shows many facts and opinions about theprostitutionbusiness around the world.
The main topic that this reading is trying to focus on is if prostitution is necessarily a negative thing in our society. Many opinions of it are negative, however, there are surprisingly large populations of people that do not have a problem with it, and in fact support it. Many of the researchers in this article state that prostitution is “essential”. Ronald Weitzer also begins to question whether the nation should make the sexual trafficking of women legal. He begins to describe that “under the right conditions; legal prostitution can be organized in a way that increases workers health, safety, and job satisfaction”.
Although some researchers support the whole idea of having a prostitutionbusiness, other researchers stated their opinions on why it should be highly illegal. A study by Stephanie Church and some of her colleagues found that “ 27 percent of a...

...JOHN MWAURA -BACP/4231/13
ST. PAULS UNIVERSITY.
ACADEMIC WRITING ASSIGNMENT-OUTLINE
Topic: PROSTITUTION
Definition: This can be defined as the practice of engaging in sexual activity, usually with individuals who are not spouses or friends, in exchange for immediate payment in money or other valuables. They can be of either sex and may engage in heterosexual or homosexual activity.
Types of prostitution
1. Street prostitution – where clients are solicited from the streets, parks or other public places
2. Brothels – from premises dedicated solely for providing sex for payment
3. Escort – where clients contact sex workers by phone or hotel staff
4. Private – where client contacts sex worker by phone but meet at sex worker’s premises, eg in Britain
5. Window or Doorway – Brothels with sex workers on display or show, eg in Amsterdam and Hamburg
6. Clubs or drinking joints - where clients and sex workers meet in discos or bars
7. Sauna/Massage Places
8. Door knock or hotel knock – where unaccompanied males have their doors knocked by sex workers
9. Transport – trucks, ships, trains
10. Femme libre – which involves widows, singles or divorcees
11. Individual arrangements – e.g. Single mother engaging in sex with landlord so as not to pay rent
12. Child prostitution
Causes of prostitution:
1.Poverty
2. Moral decadence
3. Peer pressure – common in universities, for...